Question

A customer calls you and admits to adjusting the advanced chipset settings on his motherboard to nondefault settings, and his system has now become unstable. He doesn’t want to attempt to change the settings back to their original values out of concern he will make matters worse. You visit his home to make the chipset setting changes yourself. How can you perform this action?

A. By resetting the jumper for the northside chipset on the motherboard.

B. By resetting the jumper for the southside chipset on the motherboard.

C. By making the changes on the Advanced Chipset Features screen in the BIOS.

D. By removing and replacing the power supply connection to the motherboard to reset the chipset to the default values.

Answer 1

C. The Advanced Chipset Features screen under Advanced BIOS Features lets you change the settings for the chipset buffers. You almost never change these settings unless you are extremely well versed in their operation, and doing so if you don’t know what you’re doing can make your computer system unstable.